Batty, Michael
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Personality
- His Plan generation, 1974.
- His Microcomputer graphics, c1987:CIP t.p. (Michael Batty) data sheet (b. 1/11/45) pref. (Univ. of Wales Institute of Sci. and Techn.; signed: Welsh Saint Donats, Cowbridge, South Glamorgan)
- Fractal cities, c1994:t.p. (Michael Batty; Nat. Ctr. for Geographic Information and Analysis, St. Univ. of N.Y., Buffalo, N.Y.)
- GIS, spatial analysis, and modeling, 2005:ECIP (Michael Batty) data sheet (Batty, John Michael)
- The new science of cities, 2013:eCIP t.p. (Michael Batty) data view screen (professor of planning at University College London where he founded and directed the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and visiting Distinguished Professor at Arizona State University)
Michael Batty (born 11 January 1945) is a British academic currently appointed as Bartlett Professor of Planning in The Bartlett at University College London. His work spans the fields of urban planning, geography and spatial data science. He has been Director—now Chairman—of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, set up when he was appointed to UCL in 1995. His research and the work of CASA is focused on computer models of city systems. He was awarded the William Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011 for his book Cities and Complexity, the same prize a second time for his book The New Science of Cities in 2017–2018, the University Consortium GIS Research Award in 2012, and the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, the so-called 'Nobel for geography', in 2013. In 2015, he was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and in 2016, the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). He also received the Senior Scholar Award of the Complex Systems Society in September 2016.
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